Taiwan Travel Blogs

Brett came home early and we decided to make a quick stop into town for some last minute shopping.  There are these art/scrapbooking markers my Mom has been wanting and Brett wanted to make sure he sent some back with me for how (what a great future son-in-law, huh?).  We bought all the m…

After the trauma of watching Hostel Saturday night, I still slept like a baby. We had a lot to do and not much time to do it in on Sunday morning. I needed to be at the airport around 2 in the afternoon for my flight to Kuala Lumpur, so I was up early to pack my bag. Our plans for the day included …

I am so far behind on getting stuff posted!!!  Arrrrrggghhh!  In any case, July 22nd brought a total solar eclipse to Asia.  The best viewing areas were said to be in eastern China, Japan, India, and Nepal, but we ended up getting a pretty good view of it here in Taipei!&nb…

It rained pretty hard today, my last morning in Taipei. Got up early, had breakfast and went to the airport by taxi.The flight home was early, and I got home "before I left" Taipei. Got to love the time warp. It turned out I was lucky, because the United 777 airplane I flew was grounded for inspect…

People i met here who contributed to, and improved my trip: Portia (USA), Ann (Taiwan) Ann dropped me off at my guesthouse in Taipei around 2.30pm and i was pretty shattered, so decided that a power nap was in order. A few hours later and i was once again refreshed and on my way out to meet Portia…

Ridding with HSR (high speed rail ) was a quite nice experience ,  it travels with  speed  of 200 Kilometers an hour  and very comfortable ... After 50 mins  , we were already at Taipei city.. . Taipei 101, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial hall and …

Despite the rough ending to the night before, I woke up feeling pretty good.  Brett had to work again today, so he and I were up about the same time. After coffee was made, I was all set for a lazy day just lounging around the apartment with Erin. Sometime during mid-morning I took a stroll do…

In the early morning I was taken to the airport for my 10am flight to Hong Kong with China Airlines where I would spend another week. All in all, Taiwan is definitely a country worthwhile of visiting, as it has several beautiful national parks and cities. The capital Taipei has some very…

I spent lots of my weekends in the mountains. well kind of a short escape from hectic work in the hospital...  

We met again Jason for breakfast. And then he showed us the 'secret' Taipei-metro-souvenir shop, where i got a new metro-map-mug for my collection! Soooo ql!!!After we said good bye to Jason, hugged him and almost cryed ;) - we picked up the luggage from the hostel and were about to catch the high…

I lost Christmas somewhere on a plane flying forward in time. I was assigned to a middle seat on a full flight, but the lady next to me asked me to trade places with her husband a few rows back. I get back there and find it's an aisle seat. Elbow space! Yay karma. Next stop, Taipei.&…

This is our second trip to Taiwan. Since we have visited north Taiwan on the first trip this March, we were planning to see southern part of Taiwan in August. After we had decided the date to visit, (very last minute) we were working on Kaoshiung and Alishan. 2 days after that, a bad news forced us…

It was a smooth flight to Taiwan, although I still didn’t get to ride on the Hello Kitty plane :p We booked first 2 nights at our beloved Grandee Hotel and decided to spend the next 2 nights in Kaohsiung. We have been wanted to see Kaohsiung but it was postpone due to the deadly Morakot Typhoon h…

The boat docked in a suburb of Taipei called Koolown.  While it was nice everything we wanted to see was in Taipei so we did a little research and ended up on the commuter train for Taipai.  The trip was a little over 30 minutes long and it brought us right to the main MRT subway station.…

Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later.The 15thday of the new year is calld the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade. And nowdays people usually just go to see the lantern show, like what I just did today. Enjoy!